California Coast, 1968

oil on canvas, 18" x 24"

Louis Blake Angelo was born in Kansas on February 7, 1911. He was a long-time resident of Los Angeles. While working as an engineer at Doulas Aircraft, he painted traditional landscapes and coastal scenes in his leisure. He died Long Beach, California on October 13, 1985.

Rockaway Beach

oil on board, 16" x 20"

Lucy H. Purvis was born in Washington on November 5, 1897. She was in Tacoma before her marriage to Edward Arriola about 1924. The couple had a home in Alameda until settling in Santa Cruz, CA. She died there on June 27, 1979. Her works are rare.

California Coast

oil on canvas, 16" x 20"

Cyril Ralph Baker was born in North Attleboro, Massachusetts on Nov. 29, 1895. He settled in Glendale, California about 1925. During the Depression he had a sign painting shop and painted backdrops for the movie studios. In his leisure he painted desert landscapes and coastal scenes of southern California. He died in Riverside, California on July 29, 1986. Exhibited: Webb Gallery (Los Angeles), 1938.

Coast at Laguna

oil on board, 20" x 24"

Clifford Park Baldwin was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 14, 1889. By 1926 he had settled in southern California. While living in Montrose and Carlsbad, he was a pupil of Jean Mannheim, Paul Lauritz, and George Demont Otis. While on the staff of the Southwest Museum from 1933-41, he illustrated the books Gypsum Cave and Navajo Weaving. Baldwin died in Oceanside, California on July 3, 1961. Member: Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles; Carlsbad-Oceanside Art Club. Works held: Southwest Museum (Los Angeles).

Coast at Laguna, 1889

oil on canvas, 10" x 14"

Helen E. Coan was born in Byron, New York on December 20, 1859. She grew up in Michigan. She studied with Frederick Freer and William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League in New York City and later with Arthur Wesley Dow. After settling in Los Angeles in 1884, she taught at the Art Students League and in 1910 opened an art school in the Young Women's Christian Ass'n. She lived in Los Angeles except for brief periods in Seattle (1891) and San Francisco (1904-05). Working in oil and watercolor, her subjects include floral and fruit still lifes, Chinese and Mexican genre, crumbling missions and adobes, and other romantic depictions of the California scene. Due to arthritis, she stopped painting in 1926. A spinster, Coan died in Los Angeles on October 14, 1938. Member: Los Angeles Art Ass'n; California Art Club. Exhibited: California State Fair, 1889-1900; World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 1893; Society of Fine Arts (Los Angeles), 1895; Kanst Gallery (Los Angeles), 1908; Alaska-Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909 (medal); California Pacific Exposition (San Diego), 1915 (medal); Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1920. Works held: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (Wolfskill Adobe); Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, DC (Capistrano Mission).

Coast at La Jolla

oil on board, 12" x 24"

Chester (“Chet”) Ellis Berg was born in Ohio on November 16, 1895. He spent his youth around the gold and silver mines of Nevada and Mexico where he was a truck driver. He appears to have moved to San Diego about 1930 and settled in El Cajon. For over 20 years he had a studio in the Spanish Village in Balboa Park. He died there on February 9, 1973. His work includes landscapes of the desert around his home as well as coastal scenes. He signed his work with only his last name, “Berg.” Member: Desert Art Center; La Jolla Art Ass'n

California Coast

oil on board, 11" x 14"

Adolph Berson was born in San Francisco, California on May 14, 1879 of French descent. He began his art studies locally at the Institute of Art. In 1904 he sailed for Paris for further study under Lefebvre and Robert-Fleury at Académie Julian. For the next 22 years he remained in Paris where his works were highly praised by the local press. An invitation to exhibit at the Carnegie Institute brought recognition in the United States. Returning to San Francisco in 1926, he established a studio. Berson stopped painting in the early 1940s and remained a recluse in his native city until his death on November 2, 1971. His luminous, sunbathed landscapes of California include coastals, missions, adobes, and other landmarks; he also produced still lifes of fruit and flowers. Exhibited: Royal Scottish Academy; Leipzig International Exposition; Artistes Français, 1907-24; Paris Salon, 1909, 1910 (gold medal), 1911; Carnegie Institute, 1911, 1929; San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1916; Rabjohn & Morcom (San Francisco), 1920.

Monterey Trawlers, 1934

oil on canvas, 10" x 12"

Frances Brooks was born in San Francisco, California on January 4, 1900. At age 15 she began her art studies with Armin Hansen in Monterey. After several years with Hansen, she continued in Munich for four years at the Akadémie der Bildenden Künste. She was active in her native city in the 1920s and 1930s, and while there married the poet Constant Zarian. The subject of her drawings, oils, and watercolors often chronicle life on the Monterey Peninsula during the Depression, such as migrant workers, dock workers, and net repairmen on Cannery Row. She died while vacationing in Amsterdam on November 2, 1963. Exhibited: San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1925-27; Turin, 1927; EastWest Gallery (San Francisco), 1929 (solo); San Francisco Museum of Art, 1935. Works held: Oakland Museum.

Eternal Pacific

oil on board, 16” x 20”

Paul A. Grimm was born of German parents in King Williams Town, South Africa on January 11, 1891. When brought to the United States at age seven, he already showed promise as an artist. At 18 he won a scholarship in Rochester, New York for art study at the Düsseldorf Royal Academy. After many years at that prestigious school, he moved to Hollywood in 1919 and began his art career painting backdrops for the movie studios. Leaving the movie capital, Grimm settled in Palm Springs in 1932 and remained a resident there for the rest of his life. He maintained a small studio-gallery in downtown Palm Springs at 428 N. Palm Canyon Road where such notables as President Dwight D. Eisenhower often visited and shared confidences. Eisenhower once wrote, “I profited from the experience of seeing how a real artist creates the effects he wants.” Although Grimm painted scenes of the High Sierra (where he often could be found in summers), missions, and Indian portraits, his fame lies as a painter of the southern California desert and its many moods. One reviewer once wrote, “His canvases of Mt San Jacinto, which for their sheer magnificence and power of conception and execution, rank as probably the finest work ever done on the subject.” Grimm died in Palm Springs on December 30, 1974. Exhibited: San Diego Exposition, 1935. Works held: Nevada Museum (Reno); Bank of America (Palm Springs); Palm Springs Post Office; Irvine (CA) Museum.

California Coast

oil on canvas, 12” x 24”

Nels Hagerup was born in Christiania, Norway in 1864 into a family that included the composer Edward Hagerup Grieg. He studied at the Christiania Art School, Royal Academy in Berlin, and in Copenhagen with Carl Locher. After sailing to the West Coast as a merchant seaman in 1882, he moved to Portland, Oregon. There he was an instructor of drawing at the Bishop Scott Academy (now called Hill Academy) and was a founder of the Portland Art Ass’n. About 1892 he settled in San Francisco where he remained. He worked there as a stevedore on the waterfront and later established a home and studio in the Sunset District at 1224 46th Avenue within walking distance of the ocean. Hagerup painted nearly 6,000 oils of sand dunes, ships and marine scenes. One of his more important works is the 16’ x 18’ mural in the Assembly Room of the San Francisco Merchants’ Exchange Building. Due to alcoholism some of his paintings are uneven in quality; however, in his more lucid moments, he was a master of atmospheric seascapes. He died of a heart attack in his studio on March 13, 1922. Exhibited: Lewis & Clark Expo (Portland), 1905 (gold medal); Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909 (gold medal); California Historical Society, 1963 (retrospective). Works held: California Historical Society; San Bruno (CA) Public Library.

California Coast, 1920

oil on board, 9” x 13”

Rudolph Halbe was born in Poland on April 10, 1881. He studied art in Germany before immigrating to California in 1919. After establishing a jewelry store in Oakland at 13th and Washington streets and a home in nearby Piedmont, he was a successful businessman who painted in his leisure. A world traveler, he and his wife Erna (a noted dancer who performed ethnic dances at the Golden Gate International Exposition) traveled all over the globe. While he painted, she studied native dance. Halbe was also a skilled fencer as well as a painter. His fine art includes landscapes and coastals done with a heavy impasto and colorful palette. Halbe died in Emeryville, CA on September 4, 1967. Exhibited: Santa Cruz Art League, 1929.

California Coast

oil on board, 13" x 16"

Arthur Merton Hazard was born in North Bridgewater, Massachusetts on October 20, 1872. He studied art with Frank Duveneck in Cincinnati and with Prinet and Henri Blanc in Paris. Most of his career was spent in Boston and, for health reasons, he moved to Los Angeles in 1923. Hazard was active in the local art scene and painted many portraits of prominent Los Angeles residents including Charles M. Russell, Douglas Fairbanks, and Jack Wilkinson Smith. As well as portraits, he also painted desert-flower studies and landscapes with poppies and lupines. While vacationing in France, he died near Paris on December 26, 1930. Member: Copley Society; California Art Club; Painters and Sculptors of Los Angeles. Exhibited: Massachusetts Mechanics' Ass’n, 1892 (medal); Kanst Gallery (Los Angeles), 1923; Ebell Club (Los Angeles), 1924; Leonard Gallery (Los Angeles), 1924; Biltmore Salon (Los Angeles), 1925-27; Cannell & Chaffin Gallery (Los Angeles), 1925. Works held: California Historical Society; Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth, Texas); Nevada Museum (Reno); National Museum of American Art (Washington, DC); Boston State House; Baltimore Court House; Red Cross Museum (Washington, DC); Houses of Parliament (Canada).

California Coast

oil on board, 8” x 10”

Edith H. Hopkins was born in Nebraska on February 20, 1877. She lived on a fruit farm in Spokane, Washington in 1910-20. By 1930 she had settled in Los Angeles. She died in Monterey, California on December 19, 1962.

California Coast

watercolor, 14” x 19”

John Joseph Ivey was born in England in 1842. After immigrating to Los Angeles in 1887, he was a professor of art at the University of Southern California. While at that school, he authored a text book entitled, A Plain Guide to Landscape Painting and Sketching From Nature in Watercolor (published by Fowler and Colwell, Los Angeles, 1891). A popular lecturer, he was a speaker at art organizations in San Jose, Pacific Grove (CA), Portland and Seattle. Ivey painted watercolors of the Golden Gate, Donner Lake, and other landmarks of California, Oregon, and Washington. Many of his pictures were sent to the East Coast and England where he had a ready market for them. During the 1890s he was a resident of San Francisco at 3276 18th Street with a studio at 131 Post. During 1902-07 he was active on the Monterey Peninsula where he was head of the art department of the Pacific Grove Chautauqua Assembly. While there, he maintained a studio in the El Carmelo Hotel. Ivey’s last address was 602 Lumber Exchange in Seattle where he died on May 23, 1910. He is buried in Lakeview Cemetery there.

California Coast

oil on board, 12” x 16”

Hannah Tempest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 7, 1854. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Spring Garden Institute, School of Industrial Art, with Robert-Fleury and Constant in Paris, and Tackouchi Seiho in Kyoto, Japan. In 1872 she married industrialist, John Jenkins; the marriage ended with his early death. She settled in Claremont, California in 1905 and joined the faculty at Pomona College. Locally, she was a popular lecturer, writer, and the founder of the Rembrandt Club. During her lifetime she made 44 ocean voyages to Europe and the Orient which resulted in many oils and watercolors. Upon her death on September 27, 1927, she bequeathed her art collection to Claremont College and provided for a scholarship endowment. Member: Laguna Beach Art Ass’n; California Art Club; Women Painters of the West. Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1889; World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 1893; Alaska-Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909 (award); California Art Club, 1917-25; La Fonda Hotel (Santa Fe), 1925 (solo). Works held: Pomona College.

California Coast

oil on board, 12” x 16”

Hannah Tempest was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 7, 1854. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Spring Garden Institute, School of Industrial Art, with Robert-Fleury and Constant in Paris, and Tackouchi Seiho in Kyoto, Japan. In 1872 she married industrialist, John Jenkins; the marriage ended with his early death. She settled in Claremont, California in 1905 and joined the faculty at Pomona College. Locally, she was a popular lecturer, writer, and the founder of the Rembrandt Club. During her lifetime she made 44 ocean voyages to Europe and the Orient which resulted in many oils and watercolors. Upon her death on September 27, 1927, she bequeathed her art collection to Claremont College and provided for a scholarship endowment. Member: Laguna Beach Art Ass’n; California Art Club; Women Painters of the West. Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1889; World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago), 1893; Alaska-Yukon Exposition (Seattle), 1909 (award); California Art Club, 1917-25; La Fonda Hotel (Santa Fe), 1925 (solo). Works held: Pomona College.

California Coast

oil on canvas, 10” x 18”

This painting of the California coast is signed, “Krolow.” It appears to be from about the 1910 to 1920 period. This is the only painting by this artist that I have run across in my 41 years of pursuing California art. He or she was probably a visitor and only on the West Coast briefly.

California Coast

oil on board, 11” x 14”

Edward Marion Langley was born in London, England on March 27, 1870. He was abandoned by his parents in Australia when quite young. Making his way to Canada, he traveled alone by canoe down to the Gulf of Mexico. In Chicago he worked with William Selig in developing the motion picture camera and became a United States citizen in 1904. Before that he had played trumpet in the Illinois State Guard for many years. Sometime before 1917 he came to Hollywood, California with Selig where they produced the pioneer epic, “The Spoilers.” A few years later Langley became art director for the Fairbanks Studio on such films as “Thief of Bagdad,” “Three Musketeers,” and “Mark of Zorro.” From 1921 until 1934 the Langley home in Los Angeles was a gathering place for artists and the film colony. When not busy with the movies, he was active in the local art scene. As a lecturer at local women’s clubs, he used his paintings and special lighting effects to show the moods of the desert. Langley was painting in Japan when war erupted and was a prisoner there until 1943. Returning to California, he lived in Salinas, Laguna, and La Jolla where he taught painting classes. He died in Los Angeles on May 11, 1949. Langley is best known for his depictions of the southern California deserts. Exhibited: Ebell Club (Los Angeles), 1920s; Painters & Sculptors of Los Angeles, 1926; Mission Inn (Riverside), 1927; Bullocks (Los Angeles), 1929 (solo). Works held: Desert Hot Springs (CA) Museum; Nevada Museum (Reno).

California Coast

oil on board, 6” x 10”

Bertha Elizabeth Stringer was born in San Francisco, CA on December 6, 1869. She was the socialite-daughter of a wealthy storage company owner who encouraged her pursuit of art. Following graduation from University of California at Berkeley, she studied in the studio of William Keith, at the Mark Hopkins Art Institute under Arthur Mathews, Raymond Yelland, and Amédée Joullin, and briefly in New York and Paris. At age 14 she was exhibiting locally. In 1894 she married Eugene Lee and maintained a studio in her home at 2744 Steiner Street where she gave teas and made gifts of her paintings to friends. Mrs. Lee was a prolific painter of impressionist and tonal scenes of the Monterey Peninsula and the San Francisco Bay. A lifelong resident of San Francisco, she died on March 19, 1937. Exhibited: Mechanics’ Institute (San Francisco), 1887-95; California State Fair, 1889-1902 (prizes); World’s Columbian Expo (Chicago), 1893 (prize); San Francisco Art Ass’n, 1895-1913; Sketch Club, 1895-1908; Starr King Fraternity, 1905; Del Monte Art Gallery (Monterey), 1907-12; Alaska-Yukon Expo (Seattle), 1909 (bronze medal); Sorosis Club, 1913; Sequoia Club, 1914; Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; Richelieu Gallery (San Francisco), 1922 (solo). Works held: St Mary’s College (Moraga); Oakland Museum; De Young Museum.

Trees Along Coast

oil on board, 10” x 12”

Constance Lillian Jenkins was born in Melbourne, Australia of Scottish parents on June 29, 1883. At seventeen she began studying art in her native city at the National Gallery School where she met artist Spencer Macky. Their courtship continued in Paris where both were on traveling scholarships. Returning to Melbourne in 1912, she gave her first solo exhibition and in that year sailed to California to join her fiancé. They were married in Berkeley upon her arrival. She began teaching with her husband at the California School of Fine Arts in 1917 and was associated with that school for most of her life. Mrs. Macky died in San Francisco on November 17, 1961. Exhibited: Melbourne, 1907 (gold & silver medals); Paris Salon, 1909; San Francisco Art Ass’n and San Francisco Women Artists from 1913; San Francisco Sketch Club, 1913; California Artists, Golden Gate Park Museum, 1915; Panama Pacific International Exposition, 1915; Oakland Art Gallery Inaugural, 1916; Oakland Art League, 1928; California State Fair, 1929 (first prize); San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural, 1935; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Works held: California Palace of Legion of Honor; Oakland Museum; Mills College (Oakland); National Gallery (Milbourne); San Francisco Art Institute

California Coast

oil on board, 8” x 10”

Thomas T. Mercer was born in Canada on April 25, 1884. By 1920 he had moved to Los Angeles. An Impressionist, his rare works include coastal scenes and landscapes. He died in Riverside, California on July 26, 1971.

Coastal

oil on board, 7” x 10”

Ralph Davison Miller was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on September 7, 1858. He lived in Kansas City for several years and specialized in still lifes during his early career. Except for criticism and pointers on improving his technique from George C. Bingham, he remained a self-taught painter. Miller lived in New Mexico in the 1880s and settled in Los Angeles in 1893. He remained a resident of Los Angeles except for a period in the mid-1920s when he lived on the Monterey Peninsula. Traveling the California coast as far north as Mendocino, he painted coastals and landscapes, and made many painting excursions into the mountains and deserts of Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Miller died in Los Angeles on December 14, 1945. Member: Carmel Art Ass’n. Exhibited: Steckel Gallery (Los Angeles), 1910; Blanchard Gallery (Los Angeles), 1911; Wilshire Gallery (Los Angeles), 1927. Works held: Santa Fe Railway; California Historical Society; Santa Barbara Historical Society.

Coastal

pastel, 9” x 12”

Raymond Nott was born in Kirksville, Missouri in 1888. After his parents separated, Raymond’s mother operated a chain of variety stores in the Black Hills where he was raised. Early in life he attended a military school and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He later was associated with the Roycroft Studios in New York where his mother ran a weaving school. After joining the Navy at the outbreak of World War One, he was sent to San Diego, California. Upon discharge, he settled in Los Angeles. His paintings were handled there by the Bernay Gallery. Working in pastel and oil, he produced mountain landscapes á la Edgar Payne. Nott continued producing art works until his death in Los Angeles on December 6, 1948. Member: Sierra Club; Hollywood Athletic Club. Exhibited: Bernay’s (Los Angeles); Hollywood Athletic Club, 1920s.

California Coast

oil on board, 10” x 14”

Adele C. Phelps was born in Lockport, New York on October 15, 1866. She moved to southern California in 1921 and lived in both Laguna Beach and Long Beach. Her work includes landscapes of the Mojave Desert and the Sierra. A spinster, she died in Los Angeles on September 13, 1945.

Mendocino Coast, 1940

oil on canvas, 20" x 25"

Horatio Nelson Poole, an etcher, painter, muralist, and illustrator, was born on January 16, 1884 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. At age ten he moved with his family to Philadelphia where he studied at the School of Industrial Art and for six years at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Thomas Anshutz. In 1914 he moved to Hawaii where he supported himself with newspaper illustrations and bookplates. Leaving Hawaii in 1921, he settled in San Francisco and became active with the California Society of Etchers, serving as its president for three years. Maintaining a studio at 712 Montgomery Street, he also taught at the California School of Fine Arts and at University of California at Berkeley for many years. During the 1930s Poole completed several commissions for the Public Works Administration including a 20 foot mural in San Francisco's Roosevelt Junior High School. He was an active, highly respected artist and teacher in San Francisco until his death on July 4, 1949. Member: California Society of Etchers; San Francisco Art Ass'n; Chicago Society of Etchers; California Bookplate Society. Exhibited: Hawaiian Society of Artists, 1917; San Francisco Art Ass'n, 1921-49 (awards); California Society of Etchers, 1926 (first prize); Galerie Beaux Arts (San Francisco), 1929; San Francisco Museum of Art Inaugural, 1935; Golden Gate International Exposition, 1939. Works held: San Francisco Museum of Art; De Young Museum; Mills College (Oakland); Shasta State Historical Museum; Orange County (CA) Museum.

California Coast, 1931

oil on board, 9” x 17”

Hugo A. Possner was born in Prussia in 1859. He immigrated to the United States in 1870. By 1880 he was painting murals in bars in New Haven, Connecticut. For 25 years he taught art in Provincetown, Rhode Island while active in art movements in Boston and painting portraits in New Haven, Hartford, and Waterbury. In 1912 he settled in Los Angeles and advertised as a portrait painter and commercial artist until 1932. It is believed that he then returned to his native land and died in 1933. Exhibited: Daniell Gallery (Los Angeles), 1911, 1915. Works held: Orange County (CA) Museum

California Coast

oil on canvas, 10” x 12”

Teresa Sylvia Razalle, a sculptor and painter, was born in Los Angeles, California on Aug. 8, 1888. “Tess” was the daughter of artist Emma Razalle. While a resident of Pasadena in 1909-32, she had a studio in the Blanchard Building. She later married a man named Carter and lived in Thousand Oaks, California until her death on March 15, 1972. Exhibited: Artists Fiesta (Los Angeles), 1931; Santa Monica Women’s Club, 1946.